People put up their own websites for different reasons. Others just want to be heard. Some love sharing their work, ideas, talents, and resources with other people. There are several who put up websites to earn out of it. And there are people who want to do all of these, so they end up making a website cut out of their own personal preferences.

But how despite the many reasons a person may have for building a website, only one thing holds true – he or she have to make their websites popular enough so that its purpose can be served. Your views can't be heard if nobody can find their way to your site. You can't share anything with a site that has virtually no traffic. And you will never earn from it at all if no one would come and inspect your web pages to check out your wares. Web page popularity is what gives you visitors and makes your site saleable to others.

There are different ways of gauging the popularity of a website. More often than not, big search engines have a say as to how popular a particular website is, at least as far as their search network is concerned. For instance, Google has a different way of assessing web page popularity from Yahoo, MSN, or Alexa. But given these different search engines, they are credible enough and produce congruent results.

So, what are the advantages of owning a popular website? Well, you'll get at the top of search results, first and foremost. Imagine your site coming up on the first page when a certain keyword is typed on the search engine box. When this happens, there are high chances that internet surfers would click your site to check out what you've got in there. But if your web page popularity is low, don't expect that you'll get to the first page. You might get on the fourth or fifth, maybe. And if your site is that deep down in the ranks, visitors might not get to your page anymore. Chances are, they have the information they are looking for on the first two pages of the search engine results. So, why should they travel until the fifth page?

Webmasters should strive to increase their page ranking and popularity right after they have made their sites. Or more importantly, they could create their sites so that they become search engine friendly. Search engine friendly sites are sites that are optimized for search engine popularity. The more popular your site is, the more visitors and the more income you can generate from it.

Making your web page popular is quite a task. First, you have to select a specified key word on your site and sprinkle on your site's content. You can also write for article directories using the same keywords and lead them back to your site with the use of back links. You can also send those back links to different web directories so that they become popular as your web page.

laws applied over the world wide web. Without these laws, the Internet would never be a safe place.

And when the Internet is reduced to a place deemed unsafe for any transactions, it will become such a sorry loss. People from all walks of life come and meet over the Internet, do some trading, make some money accepting work-at-home jobs, and a whole range of other things. If there were no watchdogs, there will be little chance that the Internet would thrive in the same way it is thriving right now. 

The Cyber Law is the body of regulations used to settle legal issues over the Internet. The concerns included are privacy, freedom of expression, intellectual property rights, and jurisdiction. The whole point of creating the Cyber Law is to integrate the same legal system to the Internet that is being applied in the 'real' world by all countries across the globe. 

However, the first issue when it comes to the application of the Cyber Law is jurisdiction. How can a law of a particular country apply to Internet users if they call come from different parts of the earth? This dilemma is resolved by applying at least three valid jurisdictions to the Cyber Law. The sovereignty and jurisdiction of Cyber Law lies first, on the laws of the nation or the state where the user lives. Second, on the laws of the nation or state where the web server that hosted the transactions is located. Second, on the laws of the nation or state where the business or seller that initiated the transaction is located. 

A simple example is this: a person from the U.S. tried to make a transaction to somebody whose business is located in Australia. However, the web hosting server of the website where the transaction took place is located in France. Therefore, the laws of these three countries apply to the people involved. Cyber Law states that if the transaction infringes the laws of any of these three countries, the erring party is punishable. 

The only difference between the real world and the Internet world is the method of identification. In the 'real' world, people have legal names and ID's to identify themselves. In the Internet world, however, people are usually covering their identities. They don't give their real names, physical address, and even gender for personal or security reasons. Therefore, over the Internet, name and address are not important, unless the website is all about money, banking, finances, and other related areas where accurate information of the user is required. In the Internet world, people are identified using their username instead of their real name and e-mail address instead of their physical address. 

But even so, a person's real legal identity is not disregarded. It is just hidden away from view of other people who may use such sensitive information for personal gains. This is another method of regulating the Internet from unscrupulous individuals.

Spyware were initially created as the software, although not legitimate, to track the surfing habits of a particular computer user. It usually installs along with a program or a file downloaded over the internet. Spyware are discreetly loaded into a person's computer system so they won't have a way of knowing that something had gotten into their hard drive. Therefore, they won't remove it. All the users know is that they have downloaded audio files, screensavers, games, and other programs from a website over the internet. Most the software that downloads with a spyware are the free stuff given away by some doubtful sites.

What seemed to be a harmless program had turned into a big monster. Before, spyware are only used for research and market observation applications. The first generation of spyware had helped business and internet entrepreneurs a lot in knowing how internet users behave, thinks, and buy. Those businessed who had the first hand information from spyware adjusted their e-commerce sites accordingly and they have made it big in the selling and affiliate marketing business.

However, spyware had transformed into something else. From a useful business tool, it now acts more like a virus to a computer system than a discreet program running in the background. Spyware became an inconvenience when slowly, it is being used to redirect a user's browser to an entirely different site for the purpose of more download and spyware into the system. With too many spyware your computer is processing, it would slow down dramatically. Spyware could fill up its memory to the extent that it finds it hard to process even the simplest of tasks. This is the reason why a lot of people are now becoming wary of spyware and the industry had long tagged them as nuisance software.

But despite the fact that spyware were now illegal and distributing them over the internet is punishable by existing laws, there are still a lot of them lurking around the web. This is due to the fact that most spyware can reproduce and pass itself to other users over the internet. If you have seen links being distributed over instant messaging systems like Yahoo and MSN, you have seen spyware at work. The moment you click those links, your installed messenger software is doomed. Because it would start sending out messages on its own that contains the same link that infected you.

Right now, there are a lot of anti-spyware programs being created. Some anti-virus companies integrate them into their security software too. This is all because of the plea of affected computer users. They all want to be protected from these malicious software and have the power to remove them, should they still find their way into their system.